Thursday, April 6, 2017

Trump Gushes About the Former Goldman Sachs CEO Who is Now His Top Economic Adviser

TRUMP: We have some very, very good people. This man [sitting in the room] was the president of Goldman Sachs. I mean, he was, like, the president of Goldman Sachs.

HABERMAN: I’m very familiar with his work.

TRUMP: And believe me, they wanted him. But he wanted to do something more important. As he said, as big as Goldman Sachs are, it was —

HABERMAN: This is bigger.

TRUMP: — and is. The numbers here are staggering. He did the biggest deals in the world. They were, like, tiny deals. They were like peanut deals. But, but we just have a great group of people.

Also The Times reports the following sat in on the interview. Note well:L no Steve Bannon:

[For]President Trump’s interview with The New York Times’s Maggie Haberman and Glenn Thrush...At least six White House aides were sitting in: Gary D. Cohn, President Trump’s lead economic adviser and a former president of Goldman Sachs; Reed Cordish, an assistant to the president; Sean Spicer, the press secretary; Hope Hicks, a long-serving Trump aide; and eventually Vice President Mike Pence and the chief of staff, Reince Priebus.

2 comments:

Like Mnuchkin, he's a registered Democrat who donated to Hillary. He also donated to neocon Marco Rubio. Lee Stranahan said Cohn and Dina Powell are playing a larger role in Trump's admin and influenced the Bannan demotion largely because of Syria. Bannon was a believer that Assad should stay.